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[A case of right upper lobe carcinoma with lung torsion changed in position]
K Ido1, K Toshimitsu, K Kimura
1Department of Surgery, Nagoya Tokushukai General Hospital, Kasugai, Japan.
Nihon Geka Gakkai Zasshi
|October 1, 1996
Abstract:
A 71-year-old man with a pulmonary carcinoma had torsion of the right upper lobe of the lung. A chest radiogram showed change of the opacified lobe in position. At right thoracotomy, we found that the atelectatic right upper lobe occupied with a giant tumor moved freely in the right thoracic cage due to the defect of parenchymal bridge between the contiguous lobes. Though lung torsion is a rare event, it might be kept in mind as a complication of malignant tumors or life-threatening lung infarctions.